Receptacle for djsinfectants



PATENTED JAN. 5, 1904.

W. L. MGDONALD.' RECEPTAGLE PoR DISINPBGTANTS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 7. 1903.'

N0 MODEL 6 f am?? U.. 00,? f l 1M y No. 748,636.

UNITED STATES atented January 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

REC'EPTACLE FOR DISINFECTANTS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 748,636, dated. January 5, 1904. Application filed August 7, 1903. Serial No. 168.626. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L.MoDoNALD, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Receptacles for Disinfectants, of which the following is a specication.

The main objects of my invention are to provide an improved form of receptacle'for disinfectants, being particularly adapted for use in connection with Water-closets and similar devices, to provide a suitable structure for such receptacles which will permit same to be secured across the inlets for the flushingwater in suitable manner to cause said flushing-water to ow through said receptacle into contact with the disinfectant, and to provide a structure which will permit of the ready introduction into the receptacle of particles of disinfecting material without removing same from its position across said inlets. I accomplish these objects by the de vice shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a top plan of the bowlof a watercloset, showing the means for securing thereto a receptacle for disinfectants constructed .ac-

cording to my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section along the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, showing the receptacle in position. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the receptacle shown in Fig. Fig. 4. is an enlarged elevation showing balls of the disinfecting material secured within said receptacle.

In the construction shown the receptacle is made in the form of a helical coil of wire n and is shown in position around the upper inner rim 4 of the `bowl 5 of a water-closet. The form of closet shown is one in which the rim is hollow, having a passage 6 extending around same, communicating at 7 with a Water-supply, and having a plurality of inlets 8 extending into the bowl 5 at different places around the circumference of said bowl. The receptacle 3 is secured, by means of suitable clips 9, in position across said inlets. The coil is of springy material and is held in position by its own resilience, the clips serving as an additional safeguard for preventing the receptacle from becoming displaced. The pitch of the coil is preferably less than the diameter of the mandrel upon which the coil is formed, so that spherical balls of disinfect less diameter than may be sprung beof the coil and reing/material of somewhat the diameter of the coil tween the convolutions tained within the coil.

In operation the coil is filled with disinfecting material and is secured into position below the rim of the bowl, as shown-that is, in such position that the flow of water into the bowl will pass over the coil and into contact with its contents. The coil is reloaded when empty by forcing balls of disinfecting material between the convolutions of the coil and may be thus readily filled while the coil is in position. In cases where the Vwater liows into the bowl from a single large inlet-opening such flow is generally in a horizontal direction, and the coil is so disposed that the stream of water will flow longitudinally of same.

It will be seen that some of the details of the construction shown may be altered withont departing from the spirit of my invention. I therefore do not limit myself to such details except as hereinafter limited in the claims.

What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a Water-closet bowl having hashing-inlets for water near the upper rim of same, and a receptacle for disinfectants around said rim in the path of water llowing out of said inlets, said receptacle being formed of resilient wire bent to an open helical coil and sprung into position within the bowl and adapted to be retained in such position by the expansion of said coil, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a water-closet bowl, having f1ushing-inlets for water near the upper rim of same, and a receptacle for disinfectants disposed around said rim in the path 'of water flowing out of said inlets, said receptacle comprising a continuous helical coil formed of a single Wire extending substantially around the inner periphery of the bowl and adapted to be retained in such position by the expansion of said coil, substantially as described.

Signed at Chicago this 5th day of August,

WILLIAM L. MCDONALD. Witnesses:

GLEN C. STEPHENS, WM. R. RUMMLER.

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